He who obeys her will judge the nations, and whoever gives heed to her will dwell secure.

The Lord has plucked up the roots of the nations, and has planted the humble in their place.

The Lord has overthrown the lands of the nations, and has destroyed them to the foundations of the earth.

Being surety has ruined many men who were prosperous, and has shaken them like a wave of the sea; it has driven men of power into exile, and they have wandered among foreign nations.

And the Lord will not delay, neither will he be patient with them, till he crushes the loins of the unmerciful and repays vengeance on the nations; till he takes away the multitude of the insolent, and breaks the scepters of the unrighteous;

and cause the fear of thee to fall upon all the nations.

Lift up thy hand against foreign nations and let them see thy might.

He will serve among great men and appear before rulers; he will travel through the lands of foreign nations, for he tests the good and the evil among men.

Nations will declare his wisdom, and the congregation will proclaim his praise;

The nations will incur his wrath, just as he turns fresh water into salt.

Abraham

Abraham was the great father of a multitude of nations, and no one has been found like him in glory;

Therefore the Lord assured him by an oath that the nations would be blessed through his posterity; that he would multiply him like the dust of the earth, and exalt his posterity like the stars, and cause them to inherit from sea to sea and from the River to the ends of the earth.

and the great Lord answered him with hailstones of mighty power. He hurled down war upon that nation, and at the descent of Beth-hor′on he destroyed those who resisted, so that the nations might know his armament, that he was fighting in the sight of the Lord; for he wholly followed the Mighty One.

Epilogue

With two nations my soul is vexed, and the third is no nation: